FEATURED MOM:NICOLE RICHIE

Claim to Fame: Best known for role in reality series “The Simple Life”

Kid(s): Harlow Winter Kate Richie-Madden (born January 11, 2008)

Partner: Joel Madden

Interesting Tidbit: Nicole has been described as having Caucasian, Black Creole and Hispanic heritage.

Nicole Richie was born in Berkeley, California. Nicole Richie was adopted by singer Lionel Richie and his then wife, Brenda Harvey-Richie, when she was nine years old. Her biological father has been said to be 1980s pop musician Pete Escovedo Jr., whose sister is singer Sheila E; her mother has been identified only as a woman who was employed as a backstage assistant on Lionel Richie’s 1980 world tour. Nicole, however, denies that her biological father is Escovedo. Presently, Nicole Richie has a 35-piece jewelry line called House of Harlow 1960, which is in stores now.

Well said Jasmine! I think it’s foolish that people focus on the percentage of “blackness” in a person.If you read anything above(read people), you would realize that Nicole is of African descent. Therefore, BCK will feature her on this site. That’s why i love BCK in the first place. They don’t care about how “black you are,” just that if you have a percentage of african descent in you, you are featured on this site. I think in a way it’s clever the name “Blackcelebritykids” because you learn that “blackness” is a state of mind. To be “black” means that you can be biracial, of mixed asian, Indian,or Mexican descent. If you frequent this site, then you know that BCK doesn’t believe in the one drop rule, but will feature any child with any “African heritage” in him. Continue to do what you do, BCK!

her sister sophie who is lionel biological daughter and therefore half black looks just like her, if not lighter.
Nicole’s biological mother is black dominican and she herself identifies herself as a black girl. STOP HATING!!

If you look at her aunts Wikipedia page, it identifies Sheila Escovedo (Sheila E) is of Mexican, African American, and Creole heritage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_E. But I agree that we shouldn’t worry about how black someone is or isn’t. Nicole identifies herself as Black.

Definition of Kid: A child. A young person.
Slang Pal. Used as a term of familiar address, especially for a young person: Hi, kid! What’s up?
adj. Informal Younger than oneself, off spring: my kid brother; I have two kids.

This subject just in time for Ne-yo’s comment about how light-skinned babies are the prettiest. Some say he was just joking, but whether he was or not, that mentality still permeates the black community like a bad smell. When will it end? How long are we going to beat a dead horse? I don’t care what percentage Nicole is because it doesn’t make or break my life whatsoever.

Nicole is of Afro/Latin roots on both sides of her family tree, and yes, as long as she has and openly embraces her black ancestry, she has as much right to be featured on black celebrity kids as any other non black website or magazine.

um yeah did it not say “black creole”??? i didn’t say that that made her all black, i said that she’s on here because she’s of black descent, even if it’s just partially…i had thought about adding the fact that she was also caucasian and hispanic, but the reason she’s included on here is because she’s mixed with black too and/or she was raised by a black couple.

AMEN to the above comment! And also, Nicole IS of mixed heritage, which INCLUDES Black/African (amoung other ethnicities). So, if SHE HERSELF considers herself to be “black”, and part of her genetic make-up includes ancestors from Africa, Nicole AND her child have as nuch “right” to be featured on this sight as some of our other brothers and sisters who are deep chocolate brown in coloring! Let’s all just ACCEPT one another — black skin, light light tan skin, and every thing in between, OKAY ???

I find this topiccrazy as all hell. I’m going through this with my daughter who is black but inherited my grandmother’s native american and hindi indian features. Both I and her father who is of irish and native american ancestry as well are both black upon appearences. However we both have non afro genes in our dna as well. People often think my daughter is latino but her sister whose mother is trini/puerto rican of african desecent,has kinkier hair than my daughter. However my daughter has straight hair and looks like my grandmother who isn’t black at all. Black is a state of mind not a look. My feautures are very african but you would never know that my grandmother was native american and hindi indian. My hair speaks for itsself its a reflection of my cultural background african, asian(hindi indian) and cherokee/iroquaion. Kinky,wavy, straight when cut low and curly when wet. Nicole and many multi ethnic children with african ancestry reflect this look some feautures are stronger than others.

Black is a state of mind? oh please tell that to the lady who is following you all around the store or your boss who bypassed u for a promotion in favor of your white counterpart who does less work….it is used to segregate and seperate based on the sole color of the skin of a particular race in which most people not just white people think and treat as if we are not even human. It’s as if it’s a disgrace to just be called “black”. Well im black, honey, to the bone literally and figuratively even though i have native american roots and so proud of it! Quit trying to”steal” take away our culture we are trying to preserve it the proud black americans that is.